Hand seed-sower



H. HILL. Hand S'eed-S wer. No.224,909.

Patented Feb. 24, I880.

Witnesses:

N. PErERs, FHOTO-LlYHDGRAT-rlhfl, WASHINGTON. 11C.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFIC HENRY HILL, OF FREEDOM, PENNSYLVANIA.

HAND SEED-SOWER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 224,909, dated February24, 1880.

Application filed December 29, 1879.

To all whom ct may concern Be it known that I, HENRY HILL, of Freedom,in the county of Beaver, and in the State of Pennsylvania, have inventedcertain new and useful Improvements in Hand Seed-Sowers; and I do herebydeclare that the following isa full, clear, and exact descriptionthereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and totheletters of reference marked thereon, making a part of thisspecification.

The nature of my invention consists in the construction and arrangementof a hand seedsower, as will be hereinafter more fully set forth.

In order to enable others skilled in the art to which my inventionappertains to make and use the same, I will now proceed to describe itsconstruction and operation, referring to the annexed drawings, in which-Figure 1 is a perspective view of my hand seed-sower, partly in section,and Fig. 2 is a transverse vertical section of the same.

A represents a narrow box, about sixteen feet long, more or less, anddivided by-partitions B into 'any number of chambers desired. The bottomof the box is slotted, as-shown, to

form seed-openings a.

G is a shaft running longitudinally through the box, and provided with acrank, D, at each end. On this shaft are attached or formed separate andindependent distributing-worms b 1) directly over the slots to in thebottom of the box, said worms being alternately right and left hand.Between the shaft 0 and the bottom of the box is a slotted slide, F, forregulating the amount of seed sown,said slide being operated by apivoted lever, G. H is a gage to set the lever by. I I are straps ateach end of the box.

worm, the seed would all work to one end of the box.

The machine is carried by a man at each end, having the strap I acrosshis shoulder. After the amount of seed sown to the acre has beendetermined, the lever G is set to the proper place on the gage H. Themachine being filled with seed, the men start in a straight line forwardover the ground to be sown. The man on the right gives the crank oneturn to every step taken. When they,get to the end of the field, insteadof turning the machine around, the men simply face about and then moveI. the machine up the length of itself. They then start on their returnacross the field, the man on the right following the track made by theman on the left, and so on until the field has all been passed over.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, anddesire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

Ahand seeding-machine consisting of a long narrow box having two or morecompartments provided with seed-openings in their bottoms, regulated bysuitable slides, said box being provided with neck-straps at each endand with a longitudinal crank-shaft, upon which are a series ofalternate but separate right and left hand worms, substantially as

